1 Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 South Asian Chronic Disease Network, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of Amer...

Concentrated HIV epidemics have already occurred in IDUs in the neighbouring India, Myanmar and Nepal (WHO, Regional Office South-East Asia, 2008). Due to porous borders with India and Myanmar and central geographical situation between ‘Golden Triangle’(Myanmar, Thailand and Laos) and ‘Golden Crescent’ (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran), Bangladesh is a potential route of international drugs traf...

South East Asia pest thrips species, Thrips parvispinus (Karny), is a serious pest on a number of agricultural and horticultural crops in a number of plant families. Based on an integrated approach of morphology and DNA barcoding, invasion of this serious pest is reported first time from India on papaya plantations. Molecular data have corroborated with the morphological identification. Haploty...

Introduction The attitude of Non Psychiatry Doctors (NPD’s) and Non psychiatry Post Graduate Residents (NPPG’s) towards Psychiatry is crucially important because of its influence on impressionable medical students and the large number of psychiatric patients who present to Non Psychiatry Doctors like General Practitioners. Since the data on the attitude of NPD’s and NPPG’s to psychiatry in Indi...

Carnatic music, the classical music of South India, is rich in melodic and devotional content. Vocal renderings effectively convey the devotional aspect, and a variety of instruments enhance the melodic effect of the vocal renderings. After briefly tracing the origins and early development of Carnatic music, we will describe vocal and instrumental renderings and provide a comparison. We also al...

1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2 South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 3 Onbeyond LLC, Fairfax, California, United States of America, 4 Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 5 Center for Tobacco Control Research...

1Renewable Energy Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 2GAEI research group, Dept. d’Enginyeria Electrònica, Elèctrica i Automàtica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007, Tarragona, Spain. Email address: [email protected]. 3Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Sikkim Ravangla, South Sikkim ...

Three horsehair worms (Nematomorpha) are recorded from Nagaland, India. The first species is Chordodes combiareolatus, which was recently described from Nagaland. The second is Chordodes cf. furnessi, earlier reported from Meghalaya, and some new observations are added. The third is a new species, described as Beatogordius nagalandissp. n. This is the first report of the genus Beatogordius in I...

The idea of the South Asia Rinderpest Eradication Campaign (SAREC) evolved alongside similar campaigns in Africa (PARC) and West Asia (WAREC). In 1983, FAO organized an Expert Consultation on Requirements for the Rinderpest Eradication Campaign in South Asia, which was held in India. Following the consultation, FAO commissioned a team to visit the five countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Ne...

BACKGROUND Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of complex neurodevelopmental disorders. The prevalence of ASD in many South Asian countries is still unknown. The aim of this study was to systematically review available epidemiological studies of ASD in this region to identify gaps in our current knowledge. METHODS We searched, collected and evaluated articles published between January...